Tsrach is practically a wasteland, scarred by a savage war that no one recalls and even fewer claim was real. Tsrach is a dangerous place to travel through, with a few underground settlements created by goblins and Tabaxi, but these settlements are not fond of outsiders. It's unclear if there is any kind of government in Tsrach, and in fact calling it a nation is a point of much debate. It's fairer to say that Tsrach is the land that no one wants, left alone because the land is not valuable enough to fight over.
The People of Tsrach
The goblins and Tabaxi that live in Tsrach vary in size, colour, height, and demeanour. It is an inhospitable land that is largely consumed by fighting, raiding, and the sale of captured slaves. Roving bands from Tsrach will raid nearby settlements and countries, bringing back whoever they can capture and selling them to whoever would buy them without asking any questions. Occasionally, settlements of escaped slaves or mercenaries from Anwer would crop up on the edges of the Tsrachian Wastes, but they were quickly the subject of fierce attack. Live in Tsrach is about survival and protection of small clans, but that's not to say there is no trade at all. The goblins and Tabaxi do have a communal language, and they will unite against outside forces, but they are quick to betray each other and try to gain over their neighbours.
Indigenous Peoples
The Zagash are a storied people, and many Zagash still remain in Daendar, Anwer, and Tsrach. They were a people of two minds: life on the coast, and life in the mountains. The first Zagash lived by the sea in the winter and lived in the mountains in the summer. Some Zagash, tired of that life, moved into the plains and rocky crags of Anwer and Tsrach, forming small villages that traded ores and other goods with the Kukul and the rest of the Zagash. As trade increased, the Kukul and the Zagash began to intermarry, and the descendants of those couples eventually founded trading and mining empires that fell away from their cultural heritage.
Specific Places
The Tsrach Wastes are in the relative centre of Tsrach, and they are held to be the most inhospitable. To that end, a powerful person known as Kedwab controls a huge settlement in the very centre of this area, to prove that they are able to survive where no one else can, and thus they are the most fearsome of all.
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